The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-10-12

dence of Mrs. Ira Flanders next Tuesday |
evening. A cordial invitation is extended
to all
An oyster supper will be given by the
ladies of the Nj. Il. church on Friday even
ing, at the residence of the Misses Bitely.
Supper from half past five until nine. All
are invited.
Mr.. G. +. Young informs us that he has
sold the j. w. Gray farm to Porter A. Dean.
Mr.. Dean has been talking of going TO South
Haven, but will now remain in this town.
Glad of it; he is good citizen.
Joe Aliens sentence to Jackson for the
murder of David Crocker at Grand juno
tion, proves to have been life sentence.
He shuffled of this mortal coil on Friday
last by stabbing himself. Joe was bad man.
The members of the 18th regiment of
Michigan veteran infantry will hold reunion
at Niles on Wednesday and Thursday, Octo-
ber 26th and 27th, 1887. All surviving
members of the regiment are urged TO be IN
attendance.
The result OF the triangular contest be-
tween the Bloomingdale, Gobleville and
Casco ball tossers at she South Haven fair,
was TO give Bloomingdale first money,
twenty dollars, Gobleville second, ten dollars,
while Casco was left out in the cold
Fruit isn't the only thing that our friend,
Clum Engle, can grow successfully. That
head OF cauliflower he brought to rs was
simply immense. IL weighed five and
quarter ponnds and measured twenty-eight
inches in circumference. Pretty good for a
dry season.
Arrangements have been perfected by
,thi oh, -, til
instruction in vocal music in our public
school. Mr.. Jacobs is thoroughly compe-
tent teacher, and it is to be hoped that his
efforts will result in decided increase of
interest in musical matters among our people.
"Kaiser, will your dog bite?" Prosecuting
Attorney Chandler found out that he would
as he was passing a buggy on our streets last
Saturday. Fortunately, pair of rent panta-
looms comprised the whole damage. AS
becomes the public prosecutor, Chan will
have the pup arrested and let the law take
its course.
Mr.. j. p. Preece has accepted a situation
with Milwaukee firm at liberal salary and
has entered upon the duties of his new posi-
ton. We regret that Mr.. Preece has found
it to be for his best interest to abandon his
business in this place. His wife still remains,
but her husband will not be here again be-
fore the holidays.
The pastors of the Christian and Baptist
churches, Messrs. Pallister and Bell, were
both connected with journalism and the
printing business before they entered upon
the ministry. The education and informa-
ton they could but acquire while engaged in
the "art preseryative" should render them all
the more qualified to perform the duties OF
their present profession.
letter from Mr., w. j. Russell, late pastor
of the Christian church, informs us that he
and Mrs. r. are pleasantly located and settled
in their home at Irvington, three miles from
indianapolis. We should think Mr.. Rs time
must be pretty we'll occupied with his studies
and his ministry. He writes; Besides my
twenty-one recitations a week, / am preach
ing every Lords Day at the sixth Christian
church at Indianapolis
We inadvertently omitted to mention last
week the fact that Walt Durkee, Paw Paws
leading poultry breeder, had some elegant
fowls on exhibition at the fair. Mr. Durkee
being superintendent Of the poultry depart
ment, his birds were not entered for the
premiums which might otherwise have been
awarded to them. The great success of the
poultry show was largely due to Mr.. Durkee's
untiring personal efforts.
The board of supervisors of this county is
the champion mugwump board of the state.
Its ostensible political complexion is eleven
republicans and seven democrats and yet
supervisor Dillman OF Bangor was elected
chairman. Mr.. d. is good democrat, but
good fellow withal and exceedingly popular,
having been repeatedly elected supervisor of
his town although it is strongly republican,
but nothing short OF mugwumpism could
have made him chairman of the board.
4 law passed at the last session of the
| Legislature requires assessing officers at the
time of taking the next annual assessment,
TO ascertain the full name and service of each
ex-soldier and sailor of the war of the rebel
lion within their respective assessment dis
tricts and TO report the same to the county
clerk of their county, who is required 70 for
ward q copy thereof to the adiutant general
of the state, who is to compile them into
| roster of ex-soldier5 and sailors OF the state.
Each grand army post will be furnished with
q copy of such roster.
The Paw Paw grange has adopted a novel
system to make its meetings interesting.
Two of the lady members chose sides, just
az they used 10 do at spelling schools, and
"a oShtOhiS VI lOAllS was hiIdlBtQ lOT Cou-
test between the two sides-an essay, five
minutes speech, a solo, quartette, new
member, etc, each counting certain number
of points; tardiness, absence, etc, giving Ger.
tain number Of demerit marks. The time is
divided equally between the two sides at each
meeting, the contest TO continue for the
space of two months. the side that is beaten
to furnish grand supper for the whole
shooting match They say they have lots
of tun. Shouldn't wonder if thev did.
For the information of such Of our readers
"a may not understand the signiication of
the u. S. signal service flags that will be
hereafter displayed on the pole in front of
the NoRTHERNER Office, we publish the fol-
lowing; The white flag indicates fair weather;
the blue flag indicates rain or snow: the
black triangular flag always refers to temper
ature, and when placed above either of the
other flags il signifies warmer weather, below
either of the other flags it indicates colder
weather; when not displayed at all, the indi-
cations are that the temperature will not
vary five degrees from the same hour of the
preceding day. A white flag, with q black
square in the center, indicates a sudden and
decided fall in temperature. The weather
forecasts indicated by the flags are issued
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